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San Salvador’s historic center teems with commerce: some 40,000 vendors not only fill the downtown area’s four official markets, but also spill into the surrounding streets, their tarpaulin-covered stalls packed with everything from clothing to electronics, packaged sweets to fresh produce. The national and city governments have embarked on an effort to transform the capital city’s downtown into a tourist attraction, restoring monuments and relocating ramshackle market stalls. A new national library donated by China is under construction on the capital city’s civic square, across from the metropolitan cathedral.
Despite serious allegations by the US justice system that two officials of the government of Nayib Bukele reached a secret pact with gangs to keep the homicide rate low, the Salvadoran president seems to have escaped unscathed for now, without political costs
San Salvador, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) The government of El Salvador negotiated with gangs a favorable vote for the Nuevas Ideas party in the 2021 elections, revealed a report from the United States, local media reported here today.